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Dear Vice-President Timmermans,
In 2018, the European Commission and Member States decided to ban outdoor uses of 3 bee-toxic neonicotinoids. After more than 20 years of fight from beekeepers and environmentalists, it was an important step towards more sustainable farming in the EU. Unfortunately, since then, Member States have provided dozens of derogations to keep using them in agriculture. Over the last years, more and more 120-days derogations, based on article 53 of pesticide regulation 1107/2009/EC, were provided by Member States to use neonicotinoids as a seed treatment for sugar beets.